Miracle Workers

The term 'miracle worker' is used often and inaccurately to
describe a humanitarian or someone who performs a routine service
on or for someone else who 'beats the odds' at something, be it a
serious illness or a sporting game. For instance, you may hear
the phrase, 'The Pope is a miracle worker.' This is not true. The
Pope is a man who wears an unnecessarily gigantic hat who
symbolizes hope and good faith to many millions of people. But he
does not perform miracles; he simply gives people symbolic reason
for accomplishments. A real miracle worker is an employee at
Miracle Workers Anonymous™, a secret non-profit organization that
globally helps terminal or disabled people the chance at life
again.

MWA™ was founded in ancient times by a group of
Gifted Ones. The Gifted Ones had discovered that they could cure
sicknesses by transferring them to themselves or by translating
it to something more bearable and passing it to a stronger
person, or both, if possible, and were blessed with longevity
twice that of normal humans. Those that had been deathly sick
could be cured and would recover and regain strength in the
matter of a day to a few weeks. They organized themselves and
cast out to inhabit villages and towns all over, using their gift
to perform healings deemed impossible by others. They soon gained
reputation and were worshiped even, by their peers.

However, it soon became apparent that there was a
serious problem. By transferring these illnesses upon themselves,
the Gifted Ones hurried their own death. It came to be that each
Gifted would only cure two to three illnesses before dying
themselves. Finally, the was a second gathering of a few young
Gifteds in the growing city of London, England, around the year
1330 (the date is uncertain, but records show that it happened in
the mid-early 12th century), who decided to form an
organization of those with the Gift, and start recruiting more
Gifteds at an early age to join the society. Thus MWA™ was
formed.

The London Summit had to resolve the pressing
issue of the constant deaths as well. Over half of those present
were in failing health! After days of debate, it was decided that
in order to maintain the organization a change in strategy must
be made. The Gifteds decided to start practicing the transfer of
illness to a third party. The person selected to receive the
illness must either be terminal without hope, or volunteer to
have the illness reduced to a recoverable nature in someone
strong enough to endure it. With these guidelines set, the London
Gifted Ones dispersed across the world to start their mission.

After a few years, people started noticing the
new practice of these miracle workers. Mobs gathered all over to
destroy these 'barbarians' who spread sickness wherever they
went. They failed to notice any of the good that happened as
well. Gifted Ones became hunted, and many died by the stake,
torches, or drowning. Again, something had to change. The Gifted
Ones started to do their methods of recruiting and transferring
discretely. In many regions, they became mysterious saviors,
never seen except by those they helped and those they chose to
present themselves to, in hope of finding someone willing to
shoulder the burden of the third party. In other places, the
'witch hunts' still occurred with enthusiasm, but the secrecy of
the Gifted Ones made them difficult to track, and more often than
not the victim of the mob would be an unfortunate bystander or
someone not involved at all.

A network of those who were healed and those who
were able to help was formed in this time as well, in the 1600's.
It was even discovered that is the third party person has a
recoverable illness themselves, it would in effect cancel out
with the terminal illness; the recoverable one would disappear
while the terminal illness became so mild it was easily defeated.
However, two terminal illnesses would not play back on
themselves. One would stay at the same level of strength or even
grow if a Gifted tried to transfer two at once.

The organization had grown to all populated continents by this
time, and was so dispersed that there was no banner which all the
Gifted Ones flew under, though often secret organizations started
in countries or surrounding regions. They all started working
repeats, coming back to people they cured or involved to help
cure more. Third Party persons would endure many transfers of
sickness, through willingness to help that was often rooted in
gratitude of having once been saved personally or having a loved
one saved. And so the modern technique of Networking was formed,
and has gone on successfully ever since.

In the early 1900's it became apparent to every
group that like organizations were operating all across the
world. The England Gifteds, who knew of the history of the people
better than any other through ancient documents, reached out to
the major groups on each continent, the Australians, the Moroccan
and South African clubs, China and Japan's network of Gifted
Ones, Brazil's group, and the United States Organization of
Miracle Healings, the only group to have titled themselves, to
gather and discuss the formation of a world organization.

It was affirmed quickly that it would be a good
idea to have all Gifted people be part of the group, in order to
maintain and uphold the secrecy of everyone and to help as many
people as possible. Each group was to contact surrounding
countries and regions after the meeting and spread the umbrella
until it covered everyone. In the meeting, leaders found that all
organizations had essentially the same practices. England's
organization brought out the original summit's ancient documents
and perused them, formally creating a modern version as base
rules for the practices of all. Added were the terms of
networking and reusing those who had previously been healed, and
a law that one person could only be involved in three healings
not including their own in his or her lifetime. When it came time
to name the new organization, all present agreed that they liked
the United State's organization's name, though it was too long.
They decided to shorten it to Miracle Workers, for that was what
they were, and also add their position of secrecy into it. Thus,
Miracle Workers Anonymous™ came into existence.

A gathering of all the leaders of the factions of MWA™ happens
once every ten years still, just to check in and see if any
problems have arisen. So far everything has worked smoothly, for
none of the third party people would be believed if they came out
to the public at this point. People still notice the miracles,
and the strange people surrounding them, but it generally is
attributed to some religious deity or other, or a scientific
wonder; there are a lot of those happening these days anyway, a
miracle thrown in here or there doesn't really show up on the
general radar. The public make it easy for us to slip into the
quagmire of urban legends. But we're around still, operating to
make life bearable for some and to give hope to others. Not that
anyone would believe it if they were told.